icons now&then

left: Golden's CBS logo; top right: Airtistic; bottom right: Gentlemen's Writers Club

With chapter 20 all about corporate identity and visual systems, we see William Golden's CBS logo. A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic, simple in form and conveys the intended message of the group.

The two logos on the right side are two logos that I personally really liked. They are not only simple and versatile, they definitely convey their intended message.

papercuts

For my first project in 3D design, we had to work with paper, I ended up doing a whole installation based around these organic and geometric shapes that I describe as collapsing.

My 3D paper installation on the 4th fl of SJH

Here are some other paper artists who have done some really cool stuff:

Emma Van Leest

Both above are Aoyama Hina

Elodole

bauhaus now&then

One area that the Bauhaus has influenced is furniture. My favorite type of furniture has to be book shelves and cases. The Bauhaus had a very sleek, modern look that was definitely ahead of its time. This can be found in the structure and form and overall aesthetic of book shelves #2-7.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 

kandinsky

I am actually quite a big fan of Kandinsky's work. I like how he names his pieces compositions and how he believes that art and music can work hand in hand. How his paintings visually express music to your eyes. His abstraction is really beautiful.

Composition VII

Honestly? This totally blows my mind.

minimalist design

Can we all just take a second to look at how clean and beautiful this set is?

ceramic tray duo

I need one.

back to the futura

Paul Renner designed Futura in 1927; it's a san-serif typeface that was based on geometric shapes and "representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style". 

Let's look at where its been since then!

futura

futura!

flexible logos

Katie and I are doing a project that had us looking at a lot of flexible logos. And the thing about successful logos is that they look so effortlessly simple. But are still so smart and well-designed and they convey the message that they are meant to communicate.

Here's a really great flexible logo system that I'm obsessed with:

Fiction, a Danny Jones project

london underground + more maps

The map for the London Underground was designed by Henry C. Beck in 1933  and it replaced geographic fidelity with a diagrammatic interpretation. Geographic lines drawn horizontally, vertically, and at forty-five degree angles and bright color coding made the map very functional.

Beck's London Underground

But it's also really interesting to see where these map lines have ended up since 1933, like in Paula Scher's painted maps:

Paula Scher

glee (type)

Every week, I see the glee logo and I've always thought "it's kerned tight" :

oh my glee!

And by process of whatever, it looks to be ICT Avant Garde Gothic Medium. So this is what it looks like, without any kerning whatsoever:

too much!

So this is kerned so there isn't any visual tension or huge gaps:

I love glee.

I don't know why they look like three different weights when it should all be the same. I hate blogger. I like the logo, don't get me wrong. I just wanted to have a really nerdy post, is all.

glee

New glee episode tonight (after no episode last week). Glee is all about supporting the arts in education, so it is most definitely relevant to this blog.  And it's hilarious. And there's singing and dancing, I love it.

Artie has an amazing voice: